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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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unlock the usb port of Dell Laptop(WindowXP)

I am using a laptop, Dell630, Window XP. As my company policy, the computer is running a daemon program to lock the USB port. the USB device can only be read, can not be write. So I want to make it also write able. Any idea of how to make it the…
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USB Proxy "Dongle"

I need to be able to record all print requests to a printer physically connected via USB to a PoS like system. There is no need for me to manipulate the print job, I just need a "copy" of the print request and will send it to a remote machine in…
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Unplugging power bank usb safely

I have a strange question, but please bear with me. Mostly I charge a power bank via usb in my laptop. When I want to unplug it, Windows does not show a "Safely remove hardware" option and icon in the system tray. Is it safe to often use a power…
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What happens if a USB Ethernet Adapter has the same MAC address as the PC's network card it is connected to?

What happens if a USB Ethernet Adapter has the same MAC address as the NIC? Is it possible for internet connection to pass through the usb-ethernet adapter succesfully or not, in that scenario?
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What consider as a full write cycle?

I have a computer that is connected to USB flash drives that automatically scan in a picture(1.3mb) every 2 mins. I am wondering if that count as a write cycle? MY stick is 128gb, so it will take about 10k+ times to fill the stick. Because if a…
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What are the pros/cons of software raid made up disk connected over SATA and others over USB?

I would like to use RAID1 with 1 SATA disk and 2 USB disks PS: This is an ARM board (cubietruck) with only 1 SATA port and 2 USB ports. PS2: The OS boots from a SD card :) PS3: The setup does not aim for speed but for data reliability. Edit: I…
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Connecting a usb external drive in NFS to a different server

I have two unix CentOS servers in the same farm. One of them has an usb HD connected. I would like to access the same usb HD from the second server (I want to be able to write directly to that HD). Can someone guide me through the steps I need to…
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USB 3 External Drives + Hub for Server Backups?

Background My company is a small to mid-sized business and averages 200-350 GBs of backups per night, coming from 12 servers. Our backups are running on Backup Exec 12.5. We want to be really cheap on backup hardware. We originally went for the best…
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Why does Intel have multiple Linux USB vendor IDs?

From /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids, on my system, Intel Corp. seems to have multiple USB vendor IDs: # cat /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids | grep 'Intel Corp' 042b Intel Corp. 8086 Intel Corp. 8087 Intel Corp. Why ?
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Why is RJ45 DB9 console cable still used, when all the latest computer do not have serial port?

I still see quite often that RJ45 DB9 console cable is attached with some devices, when I do not even have a computer with old serial port. So I need to either get the USB - DB9 adapter or USB - RJ45/Console cable separately. Is it just that it…
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Intel server board boot menu

I have a intel board SE7520BD2 with AMIBIOS 2003 with a raid controller SRCZCRX and I need to boot it from my pen drive. As I have problems in the RAID disks it already booted once from my usb, but I need to boot it again and it always boot from…
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How to enable USB access blocked using group policy

My USB Access is blocked using Group Policy. How can I enable it? I am using Windows XP professional 2002
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